In Liaoning province, 25.7 per cent of the population is aged over 60, while in Shandong the figure is 21.15 per cent; Analysts say ageing is one of the biggest challenges facing China, with ...

China’s most populous province is Guangdong, which had a population of 126.6 million at the end of 2022. This is followed by Shandong, with 101.6 million people. China’s least populous areas were the ...

China is to triple the number of facilities it uses to forcibly harvest the organs of detained Uyghur people, it has been ...

Thousands of local tourists poured into China's first-ever Legoland as it opened its gates in Shanghai on Saturday, the ...

China has reported a fall in its population for the first time in more than 60 years, suggesting trouble ahead for both the world’s most populous nation and the global economy.

China's population has slowed significantly and is expected to start to shrink ahead of 2025. ... Only China’s southern Guangdong province has had more than 1 million new births, it said.

China will pay families to have children in an attempt to combat the country’s declining birth rate. Xi Jinping’s government will give parents 3,600 yuan (£367) a year per child until they are three ...

Rescue workers are using rubber dinghies to evacuate people and deliver food and water after floodwaters overwhelmed towns in southern China’s Guangdong province.

A nurse works at a maternal and child health care hospital in Huai'an City, east China's Jiangsu province, May 12, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] At least eight provincial-level regions in China reported ...

Even as China’s leaders have looked for ways to lift sagging birthrates, Beijing thought there was one group who would always ...

People rest at a park in Fuyang in China's Anhui province on Sept. 13. (AFP/Getty Images) The Chinese government this month announced it was stopping overseas adoptions of Chinese babies, ending a ...

China's population has slowed significantly and is expected to start to shrink ahead of 2025, ... Only China's southern Guangdong province has had more than 1 million new births, it said.